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Don't forget his "acting" career like playing poker with Data, his pimped up wheelchair in the Simpson's, putting Sheldon in his place and most recently the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy radio play on Radio 4.

I wonder if he believed in an afterlife? If so, enjoy the freedom of not having a body Stephen...if not, enjoy the black hole, relatively.

A quote from the Man himself few years ago

"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

This news hit me today, probably because I'm hugely interested in his field of expertise and admired his work.

A truly inspiring individual that had overcome adversity with his brilliantly beautiful mind

A sad loss to his family and close friends

A sad loss to the World

What he leaves behind however is far far greater, and a gift to us all

I think we could consider ourselves very lucky to have been alive at the same time Hawking was helping us to better understand the great mysteries of the Universe. He’ll no doubt be considered, in years to come, as one of the very greatest minds, along side Da Vinci, Newton, Einstein and so on.
That he did it all whilst battling that horrible disease is a tremendous testament to his will to live, and how lucky we are he managed to do so for as long as he did.

A truly remarkable man who was given just a few years to live when first diagnosed but stuck two fingers up to that and went on to become one of the greatest scientists of our time.
The film The Theory of Everything moved me greatly, it believed that Eddie Redmayne was Stephen Hawking.

not often I get emotional when someone famous passes, but genuinely gutted to hear this news, he was a true giant of our species and his intelligence, determination and most of all humour will be missed most of all, we are all a little worse off today.

if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not jus a few scientists. The we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be allowed to take part in the discussion of the question why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God

It was quite well documented that he didn't, gera. Well, I guess he knows for sure now .. or not.

Love the bolded bit (2nd one).

RIP, Stephen Hawking.

Gotta quote this again Grenny- the final paragraph of A Brief History of Time -

if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not jus a few scientists. The we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be allowed to take part in the discussion of the question why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God